Dinah marries Meyer Bornstein and together they raise two sons: Issac L and Julius Bornstein.

Issac will marry and have a son named David J.

Julius will marry and have eight children.

Julius is the brother to Issac and 2nd son to Meyer & Dinah Bornstein.

Julius marries Fannie Haussmann and they have eight children; Matilda, Pauline, Charles Julius, Rose, Bertha, Selina, Maurice, and Augusta Ester. Rose dies at 3 days old.

Based on everything available today, our working reconstruction is:

Julius grew up in a Jewish merchant family in Poland. He learned the clothing and cap trade from relatives.

He and Fannie probably knew one another through interconnected Jewish communities before emigrating, though whether they married before leaving Europe remains unproven.

They settled first in Boston, where Julius worked alongside other Bornsteins in the clothing business. A census has him working as a Cap maker in Boston.
Seeking greater opportunity, Julius & Frannie joined the westward migration and ultimately became pioneering Jewish merchants in Utah.

There are several questions that still require further research:

What town in Poland (or Prussia) was Julius actually born in?
Who were Fannie Haussmann’s parents?
Which ship brought them to America?
Where and when did they marry?

She will marry Mogen Svenson and together with their 4+ daughters (pregnancy) they are the branch that migrates to America. Ane will have 5 daughters in America. It is not an easy journey for her as a woman, wife, mother, and immigrant.

Matilda is the 1st born of 8 children and the oldest daughter to Frannie & Julius Bornstein. Matilda dies in 1924.

At some point in the family story, the Bornsteins that settled on the East Coast – move West – who moved & when is still being researched.

Charles arrives in Utah (for reasons not yet known). Meets his wife and they still continue west eventually settling in Washington. Where they will raise 9 children. The youngest being Myer Bornstein (who marries Teresa Tiscornia, creating our family tree). Charles is the oldest son to Frannie & Julius, but the 3rd born child of 8 total. Charles passes in 1937 while living in Bellingham WA.

Selina is one of 8 children born to Frannie & Julius Bornstein. She passes in 1944.

Mogens and Ane (Anna) get married in Denmark in 1857 during a period of expanding Mormon missionary activity in Scandinavia. While the details of their meeting are unknown, they likely met through family, village life, or the growing Latter Day Saints community of early Danish converts.

Nine years later, in 1866, Mogens and Ane (Anna) had 4+ daughters and they joined thousands of Scandinavian Saints emigrating to Utah in search of religious freedom, opportunity and a better future.

At the time, life could be difficult for Mormon converts in Sweden and Denmark. The Lutheran state church held tremendous influence, and those who joined new religious movements often faced fines, public criticism, and social isolation. Utah offered the promise of a fresh start — a place where families could openly practice their faith, own land, and build new communities together.

The Bornstein Family had apparently moved relocated West from Boston, MA …

Maurice and his younger sister were both born in San Francsico, CA. Maurice is the youngest boy and 7th of 8 children. Maurice passes at the young age of 11 on Dec 15 1869. He is buried in a Bornstein family plot in Colma, CA which is the official San Francisco cementaries area for the time. The City relocated all cemetaries to right outside of the 7×7 footprint of the city. This was to maximize the land availability to house the living.

Above is a picture of her birth record.

She is one of five daughters born to Mogen and Ane (Anna) Svenson. Anna will later marry Charles Julius Bornstein and have 9 children of her own. Her youngest is Myer Bornstein who marries Teresa Tiscornia.

Augusta was the youngest of 8 children to Frannie & Julius Bornstein. She passes in 1937 while living in San Francisco, CA.

1862, one of Ane’s (Anna’s) Nielsen Svenden’s two brothers had already arrived in the USA with his young family. His family joins them in 1866.

One of Ane’s daughter grows up, gets married and gives birth to Myer Bornstein as her 9th child. Myer will marry Teresa Tiscornia .. which creates the Tiscornia-Bornstein branch in our family tree!

As a young couple with a small family, they learned about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints. After much study and prayer, the family joined the church.

Our story on the paternal side starts with four families traveling from Dronninglund, Hjorring, Denmark (presumably by land) to Copenhagen, Denmark – leaving their homelands in seach of a better life in America.

From Denmark, they left by Steamer, “Aurora”, on May 17th 1866 to Kiel Germany.

The Kenilworth lifted anchor and officially cleared port from Hamburg Germany on 25 May 1866 heading towards the United States, arriving in New York on 16 JUL 1866.

The vessel arrived safely in New York after a 52-day transatlantic journey. This is the first of five travel legs the families have booked to arrive in Utah Territory.

During the arduous five-week stretch of sailing into continuous headwinds and thick fog, the ship experienced twelve deaths, seven marriages, and two births before reaching New York.

Note: All of our Johnson family members were listed on the ship Kennilworth’s passenger roster by the surname KIBSGAARD which was the name of their family farm in Denmark.

Our relatives traveling with the Latter-day Saints (Mormon) company arrived in St. Joseph, Missouri on the 27th of July 1866.

In 1866, no single train traveled directly from Montreal, Canada to St. Joseph, Missouri.

Travelers took a series of connecting railroads—such as the Grand Trunk Railway and the New York Central—to the U.S. Midwest, where they completed the final leg to Missouri via the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad.

The next leg of travel was a 2 day trip on a river steamer.

From St. Joseph, Missouri, the company traveled by steam boat up river to Wyoming, Nebraska Territory. Wyoming, Nebraska was the jumping off / outfitting point for wagon trains heading West at that period of time.

There was not just one single steamer, but rather several boats operating on the busy river carrying immigrants, freight, and supplies along the frontier that season.
For Mormon emigrants, river steamers were an unforgettable part of the journey west. Passengers crowded onto wooden decks with trunks, bedding, tools, food supplies, and livestock, traveling through muddy river channels lined with frontier towns and wilderness.

The trip could be exciting, uncomfortable, dangerous, and emotional all at once — especially for immigrants leaving Europe forever in search of a new life in Utah.

Our family arrives in Wyoming Nebraska on 29 July 1866 and were immediatly organized into 3 different wagon train – for unknown reasons – for the journey westward.

The Joseph S Rawlings Wagon Train company was first of the three companies to start West to Salt Lake City, Utah. Thomas and Ane Johnson’s (Jorgensen / Christensen) family are traveling on this wagon train.

The Abner Lowry Company departed the outfitting point on August 13, 1866 (five days later than others), also with about 300 emigrants.

Our family, son Laurs Laursen Nielsen and Dorthea Marie Thomasen’s family were assigned to the Abner Lowry Wagon Company,.

It was the last major ox-train of the 1866 season and was often called the “Sanpete Train” because many of its teamsters came from the Sanpete Valley.

Both Andrew H Scott Wagon and Abner Lowry’s companies followed the established Mormon Trail:

Wyoming, Nebraska
Along the north side of the Platte River
Fort Kearny
Fort Laramie
South Pass
Fort Bridger
Into the Salt Lake Valley.

So, they did not take different routes.

Instead:
They traveled the same trail.
They were organized as separate companies.

Because Lowry’s company was later by 5 days in the season, it encountered colder weather, needed assistance from relief wagons near the end of the journey, and suffered heavier losses from disease.

Ane (Anna) and Mogens Svedsen’s last child Tomina who was born 3 SEP 1866, died 24 SEP 1866 on the wagon trail in Wyoming just before entering into Utah Territory.

Two weeks after his daughter Tomina’s birth, Mogens Svendsen dies in a freak accident working with Ox – they stampede him. The Ox were traveling with the wagon train. Mogens gets buried on the wagon trail in Wyoming.

Cousin Thomas and Ane Johnson’s (Jorgensen / Christensen) family and they went on to live in Draperville eventually moving south to Richfield and Glenwood, Utah where they joined the United Order.

Thomas Johnson took Susannah Veater as a second wife and they moved to Overton, Nevada while first wife Ane Petersen Johnson, her daughter Birthe and sons Christen, Peter and Martin remained in Glenwood, Utah.

The Andrew H. Scott Wagon Train Company arrived at Salt Lake City, Utah Territory on 8 OCT 1866.

The company experiences tragic events on the trail. Three out of our eight family members die while traveling on this wagon train.

Tomina, the youngest child of Ane (Anna) & Mogans was born early September 3, 1866. Mogens, the father, dies 2 weeks later in a freak accident. A documented diary entry of another passenger notes Mogans was helping with the Ox traveling with the company, and dies from stampeded injuries. His wife Ane (Anna), and mother to Tomina dies 7 days later after her husband (believed to have been exhaustion combined with childbirth complications).

Both Mogens and Ane (Anna) are buried on the trail in Big Mountain Wyoming just before entering Utah Territory.

This leaves 4 daughters without parents. Their Uncle Lars who is traveling on the Abner Lowry Wagon Company becomes their legal guardian because he is the next of male kin in America. He and his wife are traveling on the the Abner Lowry Wagon Company, which arrives in Salt Lake City 22 October due to a cholera outbreak on the trail.

His four nieces found themselves in a new country without their parents after 55 days on the wagon trail in addition to months of difficult travel in search of a better life.

The four orphaned girls lived with their uncle Thomas Laursen Nielsen and Andrea until arrangements were made for them to be cared for by guardians. The three older children Laura, Augusta and Anna were cared for by the Henry W. Naisbitt family of Hooper, Weber, Utah and the youngest, Oline Emilia, by the William Paul family of Salt Lake City, Utah.

Grandmother/Mother Anna Thomasen Nielsen lived with her son Thomas Laursen Nielsen and Andrea Jensen in their home at Logan, then Hyde Park, Cache, UT, finally moving to Weston, Franklin, Idaho where Anna died. Her son Laurs Laursen Nielsen and Dorthea Marie Thomasen’s family settled in Hyde Park, Cache, Utah.

On May 10, 1869, six years after construction started, Leland Stanford drove The Last Spike (or golden spike) into the tracks joining the rails of the transcontinental railroad. Hundreds gathered at Promontory Summit, Utah for the ceremony as tracks of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific route were connected.

While the iconic spike in Utah joined the continent, it took until August 15, 1870, to lay the final sections at Comanche Crossing (now Strasburg), Colorado, creating a truly continuous, unbroken coast-to-coast railroad network.

The railway dropped the cross-country travel time from months to just 7 days.

In 1866, as our family journeyed from east to west, the final stretch of their trip was by wagon train. Along the way, railroad tracks were steadily advancing across the frontier. Wagon train companies adapted as long as they could, but the relentless march of new technology ultimately made them obsolete. It’s a powerful reminder that innovation doesn’t just change how we travel—it transforms entire industries.

The Page Act of 1875 was the first restrictive federal immigration law in the United States. Championed by California Congressman Horace F. Page and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant, it officially banned the entry of forced laborers, convicted criminals, and women imported for “immoral purposes”

It effectively criminalized the presence of Chinese women in the American West.

Federal law assumed any Chinese woman in a mining camp was illegal property. Territorial census records from 1880 list dozens of these women only by derogatory slurs or blank spaces. They were legally invisible. They could not testify in court, own property, hold a business license, or legally marry a white citizen.

The Page Act is 9 years after our own relatives headed west and settled into Utah Territory after having migrated from Sweden, Denmark and Germany in 1866.

The Page Act ultimately paved the way for even harsher, broader restrictions, culminating in the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882.

Madalena is one of 3 daughters born to Catterina Cima and Frank Maccario.

Myer is the youngest of 9 children raised in Bellingham, WA. He marries Teresa Tiscornia and they decide to settle in Bellingham raising six kids. Myer starts Bornstein Seafoods as a family business in the late 1930’s and three generations later, the Bornstein family business iis still providing a living in 2026!

Myer passes on May 8, 1991 in Bellingham, WA.

Fun Fact: Myer was also an active and long time member of the Pythias.

Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful flight of a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft on Dec. 17, 1903.

The first member of the Bornstein and Tiscornia families to fly was … (want to help us figure this out – requires more research)

Myer Bornstein was one years old when this flight takes off.

Katherine (Cima Maccario) Tiscornia with son Lawrence (Maccario) Tiscornia in San Francisco, California

He moves the family north to Seattle, Washington. They are included in the count of refugees fleeing the city.

There are over 225,000 refugees that fled San Francisco due to the earthquake. It is one of the largest evacuations in history.

More information on mass exodus due to the earthquake can be found here.

Frank is the youngest brother to Teresa Tiscornia and Frank Maccario Tiscornia.

He will marry Ellen Tobbacco and together they will raise 3 boys; John Carl, Tim and Paul Anthony. Frank will outline his wife by 5 years and passes on September 7, 1997 in Bellingham WA.

Teresa Tiscornia marries Myer Bornstein and together they raise six children in Bellingham WA. She didn’t drive until her 40’s. Joined her husband in international travels related to the fish business. Myer was active in helping to change legislation at the time.

Teresa passed on ?? in Bellingham, WA. She enjoyed celebrating five living generations at one point!

Ellen is a childhood friend of Teresa Tiscornia, both growing up in Bellingham WA. Ellen will marry Teresa’s brother Frank Tiscornia and together they raise a son John Frank. Ellen passes on May 24, 1992 and is buried in Bellingham WA.

Katherine Cima Maccario Tiscornia on right. With Katherine’s daughter from her first marriage – Domenica (Maccario) Simonetti and granddaughter Evelyn Simonetti.

This was the meeting place of Myer Bornstein and Teresa Tiscornia, and functioned similar to a present day farmers market.

Myer was selling fish and Teresa was selling vegetables with her father.

Where does the photo come from?

In 1920, women faced significant restrictions. They were commonly prohibited from serving on juries, obtaining independent passports (married women needed joint visas), wearing certain clothes (like short skirts/legs) in public in some areas, accessing contraception in many states, and entering many professional law or medical jobs.

Young women in the 1920s who embraced modern, rebellious lifestyles were commonly called flappers. Known for bobbed hair, short skirts, jazz music, and dancing, they challenged traditional Victorian norms. Other terms for young women included “modern women,” “college girls,” and sometimes “bobbed girls,” or even derogatory terms like “gold diggers”

Teresa Bornstein (bottom right) and friends.

Lawrence Tiscornia, son of Katherine and 1st husband Frank. Adopted by Antonio Tiscornia, which was Katherine’s 2nd husband. Lawrence is at Nome Street Lettuce Farm Bellingham, WA

Katherine and Teresa Tiscornia in Bellingham, WA

Close friends first, then became family by marriage.

Ellen married Frank who is Teresa’s brother. Teresa is approximate age is 19-20 years old.

A small fish plant at the foot of Taylor Street in Bellingham, WA was acquired. Myer Bornstein was the front man for the operation. Charlie Houser was a silent partner. Charlie Bornstein handled paperwork.

Joanne will marry Frederick “Stephen” Kurtz and raise six children in Bellingham WA. Joanne will be instrumental in helping to bring Hospice Services to the community in Bellingham WA.

The red arrow points to the location of Bornstein Seafoods.

The business that was at the corner of Central and Roeder Ave was Bellingham Fish Co., which was a storefront Myer Bornstein owned for selling seafood. It was technically separate from Bornstein Seafoods. It was kind of like a butcher shop, but for fish.

Worlds Fair held at Treasure Island in San Francisco.

Paula is wife to John Frank Tiscornia. Paula and John raise their family in Seattle, WA and then move to Mercer Island WA. Two of their three sons will marry and produce 5 grandchildren; Katerina Jane, Hannah Clay, Lucy Bella, Sophia Emil, and Alexander Paul.

Kenneth D Tisornia a 21 year old groom, gets written permission to marry Donna Fisher his 16 year old bride. Her mother approves of the marriage.

Janice will marry Gary Stuhr and raise six children in Yakima WA.

Bornstein Family celebrating New Years Eve at 700 Forest St Bellingham WA circa 1947- 48

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Sacred Heart Church, Bellingham WA

Mike Kurtz (left) and Andy Bornstein (right) with one of their hauls in July 1957 laid out in front of them.

The Bornstein Family Boat (Sinnemox) is berthed in front of the Bellingham Yacht Club with Jay Bornstein on the stern.

Aunt Judy Bornstein is holding Cindy Stuhr (right) sharing giggles with her nieces Sandy Stuhr (left), Vicki Stuhr (middle).

Equal Pay Act signed into lay on June 10, 1963 by JFK as part of his New Frontier Program

This letter was written by Andy to his sister Judy Bornstein while he was in Puerto Rico on his way to Vietnam.

Stuhr kids with Uncle Andy Bornstein in his driveway at 700 Forest Street, Bellingham WA

His first job is as a Floor Lead part of a transition team with Russ Melhart.

He is the second of three sons to John & Paula Tiscornia. Tim marries Jane (Warkenton) Tiscornia and together they will have 3 daughters; Katerina, Hannah, and Lucy.

In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the Supreme Court extended contraception rights to unmarried people, not just married couples. This was a major step toward women having more independent control over family planning.

Kurtz, Key and Rodriguez cousins take over Disneyland for the day!

The Pregnancy Discrimination Act made pregnancy discrimination a form of illegal sex discrimination in employment. Employers could no longer lawfully push women out of jobs or deny benefits simply because they were pregnant.

The Women’s Business Ownership Act expanded women’s economic independence by removing remaining barriers in business lending and support. It helped end rules that required some women to have a male relative co-sign business loans.

Bornstein Seafood passes from Myer “Jay” Bornstein to his 3 sons, Kyle, Colin and Andrew Bornstein.

Kyle and Cassandra get married on Cinco de Mayo on the north end of Cypress island where they caught their first fish together.

Key siblings from left to right:

Taylor, Sydney, Major, Ashlyn